Author: Education Commission of the StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Challenge
Author: Education Commission of the StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Challenge--coordination and Governance in the '80s
Author: Education Commission of the StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Resources in education
Author: Higher Education
Author: D. Kent HalsteadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Cities Transformed
Author: Mark R. MontgomeryPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134031661
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Over the next 20 years, most low-income countries will, for the first time, become more urban than rural. Understanding demographic trends in the cities of the developing world is critical to those countries - their societies, economies, and environments. The benefits from urbanization cannot be overlooked, but the speed and sheer scale of this transformation presents many challenges. In this uniquely thorough and authoritative volume, 16 of the world's leading scholars on urban population and development have worked together to produce the most comprehensive and detailed analysis of the changes taking place in cities and their implications and impacts. They focus on population dynamics, social and economic differentiation, fertility and reproductive health, mortality and morbidity, labor force, and urban governance. As many national governments decentralize and devolve their functions, the nature of urban management and governance is undergoing fundamental transformation, with programs in poverty alleviation, health, education, and public services increasingly being deposited in the hands of untested municipal and regional governments. Cities Transformed identifies a new class of policy maker emerging to take up the growing responsibilities. Drawing from a wide variety of data sources, many of them previously inaccessible, this essential text will become the benchmark for all involved in city-level research, policy, planning, and investment decisions. The National Research Council is a private, non-profit institution based in Washington, DC, providing services to the US government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The editors are members of the Council's Panel on Urban Population Dynamics.
ASHE Reader on Organization and Governance in Higher Education
Author: Marvin W. PetersonPublisher: Ginn Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The Invisible Tapestry
Author: George D. KuhPublisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The properties of institutional culture are identified, and the way cultural perspectives have been used to describe life in colleges and universities are examined. Seven sections cover the following: cultural perspectives (the warrant for the report, organizational rationality, the remaining sections); culture defined and described (toward a definition of culture, properties of culture, levels of culture); intellectual foundations of culture (anthropology, sociology); a framework for analyzing culture in higher education (the external environment, the institution, subcultures, individual actors); threads of institutional culture (historical roots and external influences, academic program, the personnel core, social environment, artifacts, distinctive themes, individual actors); institutional subcultures (faculty subculture, student culture, administrative subcultures); and implications of cultural perspectives (a summary of cultural properties, implications for practice, inquiry into culture in higher education). Techniques of inquiry appropriate for studying culture include observing participants, interviewing key informants, conducting autobiographical interviews, and analyzing documents. By viewing higher education institutions as cultural enterprises, it may be possible to learn how the college experience contributes to divisions of class, race, gender, and age within the institution as well as throughout society, how a college or university relates to its prospective, current, or former students, and how to deal more effectively with conflicts between competing interest groups. Contains over 340 references. (SM)
Policy Studies Review
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Policy sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
Some vols. include special issues
Symposium on Public Policy and Educating Handicapped Persons
Author: American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Michael N. BastedoPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421419904
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
American Higher Education in the Twenty-first century offers a comprehensive introduction to the central issues facing American colleges and universities. The contributors address major changes in higher education--including the rise of organized social movements, the problem of income inequality and stratification, the growth of for-profit and distance education, online education, community colleges, and teaching and learning-- will placing American higher education and its complex social and political context. --Cover.